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Quote by George Eliot
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. -

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. – George Eliot

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Anger
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George Eliot
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. – George Eliot

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Hope
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George Eliot
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow’s feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. – George Bernard Shaw, to Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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Beauty

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry. – Christopher Wren

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Beauty

I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you dont have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful. – Joan Smalls

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Beauty

I have learned that acting is not about beauty. – Vincent Cassel

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Beauty

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